IMA Fungus 12(1): e33937, doi: 10.1186/s43008-021-00063-1
How to publish a new fungal species, or name, version 3.0
M. Catherine Aime‡, Andrew N. Miller§, Pedro W. Crous|, Konstanze Bensch|, Lei Cai, Pedro Crous¶, David L Hawksworth#¤«», Kevin D. Hyde˄, Paul Kirk˅, Robert Lücking¦, Tom Mayˀ, Elaine Malossoˁ, Scott Redhead₵, Amy Y. Rossmanℓ₰, Marc Stadler₱, Marco Thines₳, Andrey Yurkov, Ning Zhang₴, Conrad L. Schoch₣‡ Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States of America§ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, United States of America| Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht¶ Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands# Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey, United Kingdom¤ Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom« University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom» Jilin Agricultural University, Chanchung, China˄ Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Chiang Rai, Thailand˅ Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, United Kingdom¦ Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germanyˀ Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne, Australiaˁ Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil₵ Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canadaℓ Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States of America₰ USDA, Beltsville, United States of America₱ Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany₳ Goethe University, Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Frankfurt am Main, Germany₴ Department of Plant Biology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA, New Brunswick, United States of America₣ NIH/NLM/NCBI, Bethesda, United States of America
© M. Catherine Aime, Andrew Miller, Pedro Crous, Konstanze Bensch, Lei Cai, Pedro Crous, David Hawksworth, Kevin D. Hyde, Paul Kirk, Robert Lücking, Tom May, Elaine Malosso, Scott Redhead, Amy Y. Rossman, Marc Stadler, Marco Thines, Andrey Yurkov, Ning Zhang, Conrad L. Schoch. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits to copy and distribute the article for non-commercial purposes, provided that the article is not altered or modified and the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Aime MC, Miller AN, Crous PW, Bensch K, Cai L, Crous P, Hawksworth D, Hyde KD, Kirk P, Lücking R, May T, Malosso E, Redhead S, Rossman AY, Stadler M, Thines M, Yurkov A, Zhang N, Schoch CL (2021) How to publish a new fungal species, or name, version 3.0. IMA Fungus 12(1): e33937. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43008-021-00063-1 |  |
Abstract
It is now a decade since The International Commission on the Taxonomy of Fungi (ICTF) produced an overview of requirements and best practices for describing a new fungal species. In the meantime the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICNafp) has changed from its former name (the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature) and introduced new formal requirements for valid publication of species scientific names, including the separation of provisions specific to Fungi and organisms treated as fungi in a new Chapter F. Equally transformative have been changes in the data collection, data dissemination, and analytical tools available to mycologists. This paper provides an updated and expanded discussion of current publication requirements along with best practices for the description of new fungal species and publication of new names and for improving accessibility of their associated metadata that have developed over the last 10 years. Additionally, we provide: (1) model papers for different fungal groups and circumstances; (2) a checklist to simplify meeting (i) the requirements of the ICNafp to ensure the effective, valid and legitimate publication of names of new taxa, and (ii) minimally accepted standards for description; and, (3) templates for preparing standardized species descriptions.
Keywords
Data repositories, Dual nomenclature, FAIR principles, Legitimate publication, New combinations, Taxonomic best practices, Typification, Valid publication